Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jun 1997 23:40:15 -0700 | From | The SethMeister <> | Subject | Multiple default entries in routing table |
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Hi there,
This is a general question and I apologize if it is out of topic for this list. I recently had a discussion with a co-worker in which he said that adding multiple default routes is a bad and wrong thing to do when you want to load balance a server over a bunch of network interfaces. He suggestied using a piece of hardware to do this kind of load balancing (I do not know of any such hardware, but of course that does not mean it does not exist). Has anyone here heard that multiple default routes (one per NIC) is a bad thing to do?
ie: with a machine with 3 NICs, doing: route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth2
Would this not be a good way to load-balance a network server? Or is there a better way?
Thanks a bunch! Seth
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